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Credentialed by 26 Series: Raising the Bar from Ready by 21 to Credentialed by 26: Highlights from Community and State Efforts

The brief from the Forum for Youth Investment looks at two initiatives. One, the Credentialed by 26 Community Challenge, helped leaders in four selected communities jump-start local conversations and identify strategies to improve postsecondary success. Among the results: Leaders enlisted more partners committed to increasing postsecondary completion, used new data to inform planning efforts, extended their goals beyond college access to college completion, and strengthened connections between the K-12 and postsecondary systems.
 

Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Short Description: 
Anyone working to increase postsecondary success knows that aligning the work of various stakeholders and helping sectors work together is essential – and a new issue brief shows how leaders are making that happen on both the community and state levels.
Audience Sector: 
Advocacy
Education (Post-Secondary)
Government/Policy
Age Group: 
Secondary School Age
Scope: 
National
Standards : 
Improve systems and settings

Putting Human Needs on the National Radar Screen

Friday, March 16, 2012
Short Description: 
The National Human Services Assembly produced a brief, Putting Human Needs on the National Radar Screen, on messaging and collaborative action for nonprofit human service and community development organizations. The brief suggests language and new narratives about the collective contributions of nonprofits. Use this as a resource to infuse new ideas and language into your community’s collective actions.
Audience Sector: 
Non‐profit/Foundation
Scope: 
National
Standards : 
Define common terms and communicate core messages

New Policies Should Align With Existing Goals and Plans for Children and Youth

Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Short Description: 
To have a collective impact on child and youth outcomes, leaders must develop and implement a broad, long-term child and youth strategy, and be accountable for results. This can be a challenge. Policies often require the creation of strategic plans that are organized around a single, narrow topic. Instead of working toward collective impact, policy leaders end up generating separate sets of goals and plans, which fragment their efforts. This guide provides a set of strategies and recommendations to ensure that new child and youth policies align with existing efforts in order to create a seamless system of supports.
Partner: 
Forum for Youth Investment
Audience Sector: 
Advocacy
Government/Policy
Scope: 
National
Standards : 
Align policies and resources

Will Expanded Learning Time = Better Outcomes?

In the fall of 2011, the U.S. Department of Education established a waiver process to help states obtain additional flexibility in meeting No Child Left Behind Act performance standards. The "optional flexibility" choice, also known as Waiver 11, captured the attention of leaders in education agencies, schools and community-based organizations.

Monday, December 19, 2011
Short Description: 
Materials and a webinar about the impact of expanding learning time on schools and youth-serving organizations.
Partner: 
AASA
Forum for Youth Investment
United Way Worldwide
Audience Sector: 
Government/Policy
Scope: 
National
Standards : 
Engage key stakeholders in setting priorities and solving problems

Youth Organizing for Education Change

They show what can happen when adults create the expectations that young people be both informed educational consumers and engaged changed-makers. As momentum spreads for community leaders to organize for collective impact to improve youth outcomes, it is imperative that we not just invite but expect and support young people’s participation as learners and leaders.

 

Thursday, November 17, 2011
Short Description: 
Should young people be considered actors in school change, or simply the recipients of changed schools? Growing evidence and our own experience in the field suggest the former. Youth-led efforts to create change in schools, districts and education policy are on the rise. Youth Organizing for Educational Change features brief case studies of seven youth organizing efforts across the United States that we hope will inform, instruct and inspire.
Partner: 
Forum for Youth Investment
Age Group: 
Secondary School Age
Scope: 
National
Standards : 
Engage youth, families and community members in solutions

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